New Book Whole-Hearted Parenting by Josh Freedman on Parenting with Emotional Intelligence Offers Help for Parents to Create More Connection and Peace in their Families (Corralitos, CA) Six Seconds, the emotional intelligence network, announces the release of a new...

Tolerance Workshops Spread Compassion Worldwide The week of November 16th, 2015 more than 20,000 people gathered around the world to focus on building compassion and peace. Talents for Tolerance encompassed volunteer-run workshops in sixty countries exploring how we...

In a week where the news was full of conflicts, tens of thousands of people in 60 countries attended tolerance workshops to be inspired to use their unique strengths to create a more compassionate, inclusive world.

How much do you talk about feelings with your children? When you do, it builds their empathy skills and emotional literacy and helps them get along better with other children. Emotional insight is the ability to sense and understand emotions in self and others Click...

October is national bullying prevention month. What can you do if your child has been bullied or is doing the bullying? The field of emotional intelligence can help parents learn and teach skills to navigate this difficult challenge. According to a recent U.S. study,...

When we are faced with challenges, how can we use emotional intelligence to vault over barriers we thought were unbreakable? My name is Lara Williams and I am 44 years old, married and a mother of two girls. I love the outdoors. But, I have never really said to...

by Educational Consultant, Lize Rech Have you ever seen a child cry at his own birthday party? Have you ever gotten a stress headache worrying about whether everything will be just right at your own child’s party? I just spent a weekend of birthday parties with my...

September is National Suicide Awareness Month in the U.S. and World Suicide Day is recognized on September 10th to raise awareness about the one million people lost to this tragedy each year. We asked Six Seconds Certified Associate, Analia Penney to share her...

How do you define emotional intelligence? How can teachers use it to help students deal with our complicated world? How can people incorporate its principles in their everyday lives so that it begins to shape their relationships and outlook on the future? These are...

Six Seconds CEO Josh Freedman is interviewed on WBZ News Radio 1030 on the Jordan Rich show, talking about how to use EQ to navigate emotions in and out of school. Listen here to the whole interview with Josh Freedman and Jordan Rich [s3audio...

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